Resource Guide: Educator Information

Be a Friend First

This Girl Scouts' program gives middle school girls valuable skills to develop healthy relationships, prevent bully behavior, and become peacemakers in their schools and communities.

In BFF, girls get to explore thorny issues like peer pressure, stereotyping, gossip, and cliques through engaging role-plays, creative writing, games, and discussion exercises. They can also create and lead projects in their schools and communities to tackle bullying issues on their terms and turf!

BFF easily integrates into existing health or character education classes, or can even serve as an after-school program in the community.

Healthy relationships are the solution to bully prevention. BFF inspires girls to lead one another—with friendship!

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Since its inception, the Lifeline has engaged in a variety of initiatives to improve crisis services and advance suicide prevention.http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Peace2Solutions offers definitions on bullying, key elements in best practices for addressing bullying and violent interactions. There are no fees for Toledo area training and in-services. There are some nominal costs to cover materials.www.peace2usolutions.com

Kognito is a commercial product, providing an award-winning suite of role-playing training simulations and games in the areas of health and behavioral health, including At-Risk Youth techniques to facilitate behavioral change, early intervention, prevention, and treatment adherence.http://www.kognito.com/

The University of Toledo’s Anti-Bullying Task Force provides information for students online, which clarifies bullying and addresses any concerns, including a link to report bullying incidents and a link to a UT counselor. http://www.utoledo.edu/tlc/bully/

Teen PEP (Peers Educating Peers) is a Toledo Children's Hospital sponsored program in partnership with the Ohio Department of Health.http://www.promedica.org/teenpep